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The Coast of Everything
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Expected 16 Jun 26760 pages, Paperback
Expected publication June 16, 2026
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Guillermo Stitch
21 books107 followersGuillermo Stitch is the author of the novella "Literature™", which won gold at the 2019 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER (IPPY)Awards, and the novel, "Lake of Urine". He lives in Spain.
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Review of advance copy received from Publisher
This was an epic read, Stitch takes the reader deeper into a book than any author has ever done before, through the art of story-telling Stitch explores the boundaries between when one story ends and the next one begins and how they overlap. The way these stories are nested reminded me a lot of the movie Inception, we travel through each story and at some point the next story is started by a character and we delve deeper and deeper until eventually we start to resurface. There is quite a mix of genres included, scifi, detective, dystopia…we even have a bit of Dickens…who did feel more like Bukowski in my opinion.
It is a really innovative book, a unique method of writing, each story easily draws you in…you may have no idea what is going on but with the fantastic characters you happily go along for the ride. Some bits made me chuckle, little throw away comments like after the deepest story ends somebody listening to the story mentions how long that last story was, I was thinking the same thing. Normally in a collection of stories there will be that standout favourite but here the feeling is different, they are separate entities but at the same time they are one…more a collective than a collection.
This is a very very good book, this review doesn’t do it justice, if you like a good story and a puzzle then I very much doubt you will be disappointed by the experience of this adventurous book.
Blog review: https://felcherman.wordpress.com/2026...
It is a really innovative book, a unique method of writing, each story easily draws you in…you may have no idea what is going on but with the fantastic characters you happily go along for the ride. Some bits made me chuckle, little throw away comments like after the deepest story ends somebody listening to the story mentions how long that last story was, I was thinking the same thing. Normally in a collection of stories there will be that standout favourite but here the feeling is different, they are separate entities but at the same time they are one…more a collective than a collection.
This is a very very good book, this review doesn’t do it justice, if you like a good story and a puzzle then I very much doubt you will be disappointed by the experience of this adventurous book.
Blog review: https://felcherman.wordpress.com/2026...
March 9, 2026
“Dizzyingly innovative and wildly ambitious, The Coast of Everything is also a true page-turner—immersive, prescient and moving. Guillermo Stitch is one of my favorite living writers, and all of his talents are on display in this astounding new novel.”
—Christopher Boucher, author of Big Giant Floating Head
“An immense achievement. The Coast of Everything is an ingenious series of nesting novels, combining the worlds of Dickens, sci-fi, detective noir and The Arabian Nights. It invites us to pull at the threads of narrative superstructure and ask who is really reading and telling us this addictive story.”
—Rónán Hession, author of Ghost Mountain and Leonard and Hungry Paul
“The Coast of Everything is a genre-shifting, interlocking and overlapping wondrous puzzle of a novel, a book which houses never-ending stories and a never-ending story, which spirals and multiplies and drives its reader through its 747 pages with death-defying nerve and a life-embracing drive. Its structure is not so much ‘boxes within boxes’ as ‘boxes hidden in subterranean tunnels beneath abyssal caverns which lead to labyrinthine corridors which open out into mysterious rooms which in turn contain more boxes.’ And it is, I think, the only book of such length which, once finished, immediately left me with the urge to go back to its first page and begin again.”
—C.D.Rose, author of Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea
“Guillermo Stitch escorts the reader through lush, Jamesian-paced prose that hums with the echoes of the Russians, the warmth of EM Forster, and the joie de vivre of James Joyce. This is a fabulous landscape: dreamy, concrete, beautifully and fully imagined, and peopled with vivid mavericks. The Coast of Everything is a timeless, extraordinary work.”
—Nuala O’Connor, author of NORA & Seaborne
“Structurally every bit as innovative and impressive as Ulysses. Stunning… absolutely stunning.”
—David Collard, author of Multiple Joyce
“The fact that there is a writer like Guillermo Stitch defiantly working at these depths when so much feels so shallow turns me around whenever I’m at the point of despair. It’s the only kind of antic disposition committed enough to pierce through. I’ve been lost in The Coast of Everything for months and I’m not sure I’ll ever get out or if I even want to.”
—Professor Luke Kennard, Film & Creative Writing, Univ. of Birmingham, author of Black Bag
—Christopher Boucher, author of Big Giant Floating Head
“An immense achievement. The Coast of Everything is an ingenious series of nesting novels, combining the worlds of Dickens, sci-fi, detective noir and The Arabian Nights. It invites us to pull at the threads of narrative superstructure and ask who is really reading and telling us this addictive story.”
—Rónán Hession, author of Ghost Mountain and Leonard and Hungry Paul
“The Coast of Everything is a genre-shifting, interlocking and overlapping wondrous puzzle of a novel, a book which houses never-ending stories and a never-ending story, which spirals and multiplies and drives its reader through its 747 pages with death-defying nerve and a life-embracing drive. Its structure is not so much ‘boxes within boxes’ as ‘boxes hidden in subterranean tunnels beneath abyssal caverns which lead to labyrinthine corridors which open out into mysterious rooms which in turn contain more boxes.’ And it is, I think, the only book of such length which, once finished, immediately left me with the urge to go back to its first page and begin again.”
—C.D.Rose, author of Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea
“Guillermo Stitch escorts the reader through lush, Jamesian-paced prose that hums with the echoes of the Russians, the warmth of EM Forster, and the joie de vivre of James Joyce. This is a fabulous landscape: dreamy, concrete, beautifully and fully imagined, and peopled with vivid mavericks. The Coast of Everything is a timeless, extraordinary work.”
—Nuala O’Connor, author of NORA & Seaborne
“Structurally every bit as innovative and impressive as Ulysses. Stunning… absolutely stunning.”
—David Collard, author of Multiple Joyce
“The fact that there is a writer like Guillermo Stitch defiantly working at these depths when so much feels so shallow turns me around whenever I’m at the point of despair. It’s the only kind of antic disposition committed enough to pierce through. I’ve been lost in The Coast of Everything for months and I’m not sure I’ll ever get out or if I even want to.”
—Professor Luke Kennard, Film & Creative Writing, Univ. of Birmingham, author of Black Bag
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